The CAPSTONE Mission Team began 24/7 shifts to support the insertion maneuvers and stabilize the spacecraft in orbit.
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission will test the lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) that is the intended orbit for the Gateway lunar space station.
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission launched on 2022-06-28.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA on 2022-06-28 using an Electron rocket.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA on 2022-06-28.
Rocket Lab launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission to the Moon on 2022-06-28 as an Electron mission.
The NASA-funded CAPSTONE mission will enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon to test the stability of that orbit ahead of future Artemis missions, including the lunar Gateway.
The CAPSTONE mission was built in under three years and for under $30,000,000 using a fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research contract.
The CAPSTONE mission was built in under three years and for under $30,000,000 using a fixed-price Small Business Innovative Research contract.
Rocket Lab operates two Photon spacecraft in low Earth orbit, and the CAPSTONE mission is the first to employ the high-energy variant of the Photon spacecraft bus powered by the HyperCurie engine designed for lunar and interplanetary missions.
NASA selected Colorado-based Advanced Space to develop the CAPSTONE mission in 2019.
Rocket Lab’s CAPSTONE mission for NASA is scheduled to launch from New Zealand in the first half of 2022.
Frontier-S SDRs are currently flying on Rocket Lab’s Pathstone mission and are being integrated into the upcoming CAPSTONE mission to the moon for NASA.
The CAPSTONE mission is scheduled to launch later 2021 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.
Rocket Lab is developing several missions beyond Earth orbit using the Photon spacecraft, including the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon in support of NASA’s Artemis program and a privately funded science mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab is planning to launch the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab will launch the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in 2021-10-01.
The CAPSTONE mission was originally slated to launch from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2 in Virginia but will instead launch from Launch Complex 1 to support a Q4 launch window.
Rocket Lab will launch the CAPSTONE mission on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand in the fourth quarter.
Photon Pathstone is equipped with new power management, thermal control, and attitude control subsystems intended for use on the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon later in 2021.